More Americans now believe that senior White House officials ordered the IRS to target conservative groups, a new CNN/ORC International survey has found.

The poll, released Tuesday, showed that 47 percent of Americans now think that the White House ordered the IRS probes, an increase of 10 percentage points over the past month.

Naturally, this belief varies by party, with Democrats being less likely to believe that the Obama Administration had a hand in it, and Republicans being overwhelmingly certain that Democrats did have a hand in this unprecedented scrutiny.

Only 21 percent of Democrats believe that the White House had a very active role in the IRS scandal while 74 percent said that the IRS acted on their own. Most Republicans (71 percent) believe that the White House ordered the IRS to take action, while a mere 26 percent think that the IRS had gotten out of hand. Independents are more or less split, but more (51 percent) now believe that the White House ordered the IRS to intimidate political opponents while 45 percent think it was just inside corruption on the IRS’ part.

Be that as it may, it seems as if the nation on a whole might already be losing interest in this particular scandal, with those who consider the issue “very important” losing 4 percentage points (from 55 percent to 51 percent) since May.

The CNN/ORC International poll was conducted June 11-13 on 1,014 adults. The margin of error is +/- 3 percentage points.